
TARGETING THE “REVISIONIST” LEFT
IT WAS A FEW MINUTES BEFORE NOON ON APRIL 8, 1987 when a Senderista "annihilation commando" entered San Juan de ...

Coca’s Shining Path
JANUARY 19, 1988. THE ENTIRE POPULATION of Barranca is in the village square, along with resi- dents of 15 other ...

PERUVIAN Politics A Historic Shift to the Left
LIMA, Peru-Although the defeat of the center Right government party. Popular Action, was expected in the April 14 Peruvian presidential ...

There Is No Other Way” An Interview with Luís Arce Borja
Luis Arce Boraa is the editor of El Diario, a pro-Sendero newspaper published in Lima. He was interviewed in Bel- ...

The Revolution Behind Bars
MOST OF THE YEAR LIMA IS GRAY AND SAD. This is particularly striking at the city's edge because the desert ...

PUNISH, BUT DON’T KILL
OCTOBER 1982. IN THE COMMUNITY OF NIN- acushma, of the department of Huancavelica, a guer- rilla column is holding one ...

The Rondas: Community-based resistance or an arm of the military?
Some proponents of refugee resettlement argue that peasant defense patrols-rondas campesinas-are the answer to the security concerns of returning ...

A Dwarf Star
On the night of May 17,1980, the eve of Peru's first presidential elections in 17 years, a group of youths ...